ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with studies which have attempted to examine similar types of nouns, albeit under different concepts and categorisation. Vendler identified “container nouns” while finding linguistic evidence to the philosophical debate about the difference between facts and events. Although Vendler made an early attempt to categorise types of nouns, Halliday and Hasan are regarded as the first to give a definition of lexical cohesion of “general nouns”. However, some problems can be found in Schmid’s classification and summary of lexico-grammatical patterns. An interactive model of discourse taken by a study dictates that there are two reciprocal aspects embedded in discourse: one is reader-friendly; the other is writer-oriented. Thus the people do need an effective and efficient solution, which is desirably built on syntactic structure information.
